Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4284

Name

Acetobacterium Balch et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Eubacteriaceae Ludwig et al. 2010

Members

species	Acetobacterium woodii Balch et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)
species	Acetobacterium bakii Kotsyurbenko et al. 1997
species	Acetobacterium carbinolicum Eichler and Schink 1985 emend. Paarup et al. 2006
species	Acetobacterium fimetarium Kotsyurbenko et al. 1997
species	Acetobacterium malicum Tanaka and Pfennig 1990
species	Acetobacterium paludosum Kotsyurbenko et al. 1997
species	Acetobacterium tundrae Simankova et al. 2001
species	Acetobacterium wieringae Braun and Gottschalk 1983

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Clostridia Rainey 2010
order Eubacteriales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Tindall 2019
suborder Eubacteriineae Breed et al. 1944 (Approved Lists 1980)
family Eubacteriaceae Ludwig et al. 2010
genus Acetobacterium Balch et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Acetobacterium Balch et al. 1977 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4284.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4284.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 6, 2010.

References

Simankova MV, Kotsyurbenko OR, Stackebrandt E, Kostrikina NA, Lysenko AM, Osipov GA, Nozhevnikova AN. Acetobacterium tundrae sp. nov., a new psychrophilic acetogenic bacterium from tundra soil. Arch Microbiol 2000; 174:440-447. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030000229 [PubMed].
Kotsyurbenko OR, Simankova MV, Nozhevnikova AN, Zhilina TN, Bolotina NP, Lysenko AM, Osipov GA. New species of psychrophilic acetogens: Acetobacterium bakii sp. nov., A. paludosum sp. nov., A. fimetarium sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 1995; 163:29-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050167.
Balch WE, Schoberth S, Tanner RS, Wolfe RS. Acetobacterium, a new genus of hydrogen-oxidizing, carbon dioxide-reducing, anaerobic bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1977; 27:355-361. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-27-4-355.
Eichler B, Schink B. Oxidation of primary aliphatic alcohols by Acetobacterium carbinolicum sp. nov., a homoacetogenic anaerobe. Arch Microbiol 1984; 140:147-152.
Braun M, Gottschalk G. Acetobacterium wieringae sp. nov., a new species producing acetic acid from molecular hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Zentralbl Bakteriol Orig A 1982; 3:368-376.
Ludwig W, Schleifer K-H, Whitman WB. Family II. Eubacteriaceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity G, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, Schleifer KH, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 3, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2009, p. 865.
Tanaka K, Pfennig N. Fermentation of 2-methoxyethanol by Acetobacterium malicum sp. nov. and Pelobacter venetianus. Arch Microbiol 1988; 149:181-187. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00422003.